Patience is a virtue... not a right!

Where have we gone? I know it seems like we've fallen off the face of the earth, but we haven't. On the contrary I, myself, have been so overwhelmingly busy it's hard to remember my own name at times. It's made it tough to do things like update my totally awesome seyDesign theme buyers with news of what to expect on the horizon.

So here is a list of things you can expect to see from us in the future (it's too hard to say when though):

• New site:

  We are in fact working on a new design and layout for this site. It is taking a while to port everything over, but we want it done right and we want to be super professional. I wish I could give you an accurate timeline of when to expect it but I can't. What you can do, though, is watch our theme upgrades as we are tweaking each one in alphabetical order, to make sure that they are all up to the new site standards.

• New theme

  We are sitting on a completed theme, waiting for the perfect time to release it. Ideally we want to launch it with the new site, but only time will tell.

• New approach

  It's too early to say yet, but we are thinking of a new approach to RapidWeaver themes. Nothing drastic. We are just a little frustrated at times with the total number of hours required to make the complex themes that we do. I can be limiting, at times, to be every theme for every person. We need to change that. Nothing big, but definitely significant.

• Out with the old

  This has been pending for quite some time now and I might as well make it public; we will no longer be selling WordPress themes... here. There is far too much confusion among the buyers and the two products, RapidWeaver and WordPress just don't co-exist well in the same space. The WordPress side of this operation needs to move, and it will when the new seyDesign site comes around.

• SOTW no more

  It is safe to say that if I were any more behind on the seyDesign Site of the Week portion of this blog I would have to change it to Site of the Year. I am sorry to have to do this but I think I am going to have to cut out that portion. I loved doing it but I just don't have the time. You are actually far better off submitting your site to RapidWeaved.com (the unofficial RapidWeaver site showcase) as you'll get a far broader audience looking at your site. Sorry for the inconvenience.

So what have we been up to that has us so quite? Lots of websites and graphics. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to speak of any of them but a few of them are pretty sweet. I did take a few hours of my schedule last week to quickly blast up a personal website to catch all of my random thoughts and activities. You can see the fruits of my labour at AdamMerrifield.info.

I hope to have more exciting news for you soon, and until then, happy weaving.

Ars Technica takes a sneak-peek at RapidWeaver 4

RapidWeaver got some mad love from Ars Technica today with an exclusive pre-release sneak peek at RapidWeaver 4.0. By all accounts it looks as though 4.0 is going to bring some great new features and capabilities to the already killer platform. With a sleek new UI some more power under the hood, RapidWeaver could be setting the bar super high this time.Watch your back DreamWeaver. Your days are numbered.

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THEME UPGRADE: dogPress r6, Working like a dog for you!

Every so often we need to take a hard look at what we've been doing and take note of where our strengths and weaknesses are. In doing so recently, we found that our dogPress is our most popular RapidWeaver theme... EVER! This actually came as a bit of a shock to us and made us feel a bit bad that we had neglected it. To reward you for your patronage and loyalty we decided that dogPress was long overdue for a much need (and free) upgrade!

Call us crazy or call us mad dogs, but we couldn't help giving the hottest upgrades to our most popular theme. We have added width options, header height variations, and all new color controls, including page colors!

To learn more about all the new features, visit the dogPress information pages. To download the update installer, visit the update repository.

It won't be long...er than it has to be

My apologies to all seyDesign fans. We are quiet at the moment and I suspect we will be for a while longer yet. We have new themes and updates to get out but we want to wait until our relaunch, our new seyDesign 2008 website. When that will be is hard to say, because as much as we would like to work on it all day and night, the reality is that we have large scale projects for clients that need to be addressed first. I am doing all I can to get a little done here and there and am making fairly good progress but a sight as large as seyDesign takes a long time to migrate over. We aren't simply changing the "look". We are changing the technology in it's entirety, we are remapping certain areas of the site, removing unused portions, making it easier to access other areas that are more critical to users, and the list goes on. Please bear us, your patience is appreciated.

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